Adventure B: Inca Curse (1981)

Play: 7/10 Welp, another super sparse Artic/Nick Hardy Adventure with barely any room descriptions: basically just action, items, and puzzles! The heart of any good adventure after all :-p

Feel: 6/10 I had to rely on a map for this one--definitely harder than Adventure A: Planet of Death imo! I also had to look up help for 2 of the puzzles, argh. But I still had fun playing it! (Ironically, I just read in a review that this is considered one of the easier of the Artic Adventures >.< I'm such a mess lol). I did like the setting, but it always feels quite tacky with these "Inca adventures" type settings. Plus, with such sparse descriptions, the setting really doesn't matter much heh. Very peculiar Incan temple, indeed.... And regardless, the game just increasingly felt more and more boring. I mean, I did like once you got into the Blue Stone+Ring parts and "the forgotten room." but... And it's finally another treasure-collecting text adventure that keeps track of score, which I love, but meh--had already mostly lost interest by then. I felt like I was legit just ransacking some Indigenous temple..

Attachment: 6/10 But I did push through to complete 100%, which says something... Definitely not going to be one of my go-to text adventures. You can definitely tell which ones are written by whom in this Artic Adventure series! While I like that it shows the score, it's unclear what the maximum is (tho I even used a map and clues for my 2nd attempt so I'm quite sure I got the maximum). Either way, yay!

P.S. Since I've gotten questions about this a couple times, I think I will start stating Play time, even for games I don't finish etc., in the reviews themselves. I think that could be interesting too! Not sure if I will do cumulative for replay time games, or do how I do my Playthrough times in the other section hmmm. Anyway--

Completion: 100% Playtime: ~30 minutes